Economic Development, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in the Fiji Islands
Author: Satendra Prasad
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 14
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Economic Development, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in the Fiji Islands
Author: Darryn Snell
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Published: 2001-11-06
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study discusses a complex situation whereby a numerically dominant indigenous community asserts that it is vulnerable and demands a dominant role in governance. The reasons for such claims are explored, as is the indigenous Fijians’ real and perceived sense of exclusion from the mainstream commercial economy. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.
Islands of Turmoil
Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1920942750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy rights, the island nation of Fiji should be thriving. It is easily the most developed country in the South Pacific; it is a hub for regional transportation and communication links, the home of international diplomatic, educational and aid organisations, with a talented multiethnic population. Yet, since its independence it has suffered two military coups in 1987 and an attempted putsch in 2000, resulting in strained institutions, and disrupted improvements to essential infrastructure, and to educational, social and medical services.
From Promise to Practice
Author: Chandra Lekha Sriram
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781588261120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual.
Politics in Fiji
Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: Institute for Polynesian Studies
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 184
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Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 192214438X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A wonderfully rich, insightful and personally touching collection of essays by the Pacific region’s most prolific and engaging historian. Brij Lal writes eloquently and poetically about his professional and political journeys, and the many different people and worlds he has encountered on the way. Readers will be inspired by this collective account of a courageous life committed to the achievement of democratic freedom and social justice. What shines through these pages is Lal’s love of and commitment to Fiji, from which he has been painfully exiled.” - David Hanlon, Professor of History & Former Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
Author: Stewart Firth
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 192094298X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Pacific Islands are feeling the effects of globalisation. Free trade in sugar and garments is threatening two of Fiji's key industries. At the same time other opportunities are emerging. Labour migration is growing in importance, and Pacific governments are calling for more access to Australia's labour market. Fiji has joined Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati as a remittance economy, with thousands of its citizens working overseas. Meantime, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands grapple with an older kind of globalisation in which overseas companies exploit mineral and forest resources. The Pacific Islands confront unique problems of governance in this era of globalisation. The modern, democratic state often fits awkwardly with traditional ways of doing politics in that part of the world. Just as often, politicians in the Pacific exploit tradition or invent it to serve modern political purposes. The contributors to this volume examine Pacific globalisation and governance from a wide range of perspectives. They come from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Hawai'i, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Jamaica as well as Australia."--Publisher's description.
Fiji: The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity
Author: Vijay Naidu
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1907919392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiji has experienced four military coups and a military mutiny since 1987, mainly as a result of tension between the majority indigenous Fijian population and an economically powerful Indian minority. Smaller minorities, including Banabans, Rotumans, Chinese, Melanesians and other Pacific islanders are largely politically invisible, and socially and economically excluded. In January 2013, Fiji’s government rejected a draft constitution drawn up by an independent commission, and submitted it to be re-written by the Attorney-General’s office. This intervention threatens to significantly undermine the people’s confidence in the process, the final document and a democratic future for Fiji. Against the backdrop of these upheavals, this report provides insight into the underlying causes and consequences of ethnic tensions in Fiji, based on evidence drawn from extensive interviews across the diversity of Fiji’s ethnic groups. This report urges the government, civil society and religious and ethnic community leaders to promote understanding, tolerance and dialogue between groups. It also provides specific recommendations on tackling ethnic discrimination and exclusion.
Coup
Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1921536373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMay 19, 2000. Fiji's democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight's supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the People's Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. The process of healing and reconciliation, symbolised by the enactment of a new Constitution, unanimously approved by Parliament and blessed by the powerful Great Council of Chiefs, lies discarded, as winds of ethnic chauvinism sweep through the countryside, damaging the fragile fabric of multiculturalism that was carefully constructed by so many over many years. The economy is on the brink of collapse, investor confidence has vanished, and the best and the brightest are seeking succour on other shores. Fiji falls victim, yet again, to the prejudice and greed of a section of its people. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji. They were written while the gun was still smoking; personal, anguished reactions of people from all walks of life, concerned about a country they all love but deeply distressed by the developments there. They are first reactions. They will in time become essential building blocks for a larger interpretive framework of academic analysis about origins, processes and impacts. Straight from the heart, these memoirs will be remembered as the people of Fiji and their friends elsewhere contemplate the wreckage and ruin brought about by that act of madness in the month of May 2000.
Rethinking Ethnicity
Author: Eric P. Kaufmann
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780415315425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups.
